Alsaphot

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Alsaphot is a French company which produced various camera models from 1949 to 1970[1]. It depended from the company "Société Alsacienne d'Etudes et d'Exploitation, Alsetex"[2], that still exists today (2006) as "SAE Alsetex"[3].

The company began the camera production with some inexpensive medium format models, like the Dauphin pseudo TLR and the D'Assas 6×6 viewfinder camera. It later developed three advanced and original models: the Bioflex TLR, the Cyclope 6×9 camera with folded light path and the Alsaflex, a 24×24 SLR camera that did not go past the preseries level. It also took over the production of the Memox 24×24 camera from the SIAP company, and extrapolated a 24×36 model. After these interesting cameras, the company made a series of unremarkable 35mm viewfinder cameras called the Maine before stopping its activity.

Notes

  1. Alsaphot history of the Fex-Indo website (web archive dated Oct 12, 2004).
  2. Alsaphot history of the Fex-Indo website (web archive dated Oct 12, 2004).
  3. See its current presentation page

120 film

4.5×6 viewfinder

  • Cima

6×6 viewfinder

  • Ajax
  • Cady
  • D'Assas
  • D'Assas-Lux
  • D'Assas 3
  • Norlin

6×6 TLR

6×6 pseudo TLR

  • Dauphin I, II, III

6×9 viewfinder

35mm film

24×24 SLR

  • Alsaflex

24×24 viewfinder

  • Memox 24×24

24×36 viewfinder

  • Memox 24×36
  • Doubs
  • Maine I
  • Maine Is
  • Maine IIc
  • Maine IIIa

Bibliography

  • Vial, Bernard. Histoire des appareils français. Période 1940–1960. Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1980, re-impressed in 1991. ISBN 2-86941-156-1.

Links

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